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  • Improving the accuracy and efficiency of bird song analysis with machine learning based event detection

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    Mathew, Anju
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    Ornithology is an exciting field with novel research emerging everyday. Researchers in bioacoustics often spend hours within the wilderness recording bird calls to analyze later in their lab. The burden of sifting through hours of audio recordings from the field continues to remain a time-consuming and manual task, despite the...
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    first place. Many birds are known for chirping at the crack of dawn, much to the dismay of humans who

  • Developing a Green Lab Certification for a Research-Intensive University

    Creator:
    Albright, Sally N.
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    Oregon State laboratories are responsible for a significant portion of the university’s overall resource and energy consumption, and therefore minimizing waste in a sustainable way should be a top priority for the university while aiming for carbon neutrality by 2025. This study addresses major factors that should be considered when...
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    Sciences, specifically Ms. Dawn-Marie Gaid, Mr. Casey Menn, Ms. Mary Chuinard, and Ms. Erin Lieuallen for

  • Posthumously Yours : A Kunderian Approach to Fiction

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    Tellvik, Dani N.
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    In this piece of original work, I employ a Kunderian approach to fiction. The purpose of my novel is to examine how the causative element, a pivotal moment of change for a cast of characters, changes spatially and temporally. In Posthumously Yours, I explore themes of trauma, loss, and grief...
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    up at the crack of Sunday dawn to take the first Ferry out. They’d get coffee and bagels at a

  • Devising Theatre: Experience as Art

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    Parham, Anne A
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    Any work of literature is a product of its time revealing truths about its culture. My thesis explores how pre-selected inspiration, personal experiences, and current events play a role in the devising process of a script. The inspiration for this particular devised play is Letters to a Young Poet by...
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    ; each interpretation being different. Rainer Marie Rilke’s advice transcends the questions of Franz

  • Does the Type of Licensure Affect the CPAs' Ethical Framework?

    Creator:
    Conan, Michael
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    Moral reasoning ability is a measure of the stage of development of an individual along a theoretical scale through which one moves over the course of their lifetime, developed by Lawrence Kohlberg and further modified by James Rest, who’s revised Defining Issues Test (DIT-2) will be used for our study....
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  • Teneo

    Creator:
    Kelsay, Rebecca Marie
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    The novella follows a protagonist named Charlie Tinger and his daughter Rainy. The purpose of this novella was to highlight the complexity of a father-daughter relationship, projecting a quirky and special bond between the two. Written with the intent of eliciting emotion in the form of humor and sadness, I...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rebecca Marie Kelsay for

  • Sustainable US Federal Water Policy Recommendations

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    Kusanto, Nicholas Christopher
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    Climate change, population growth, aging infrastructure, poor water management, and aquifer depletion are reducing US water supply. Increasing water scarcity will lead to an inability to support agriculture, industry, energy, and municipal demand that will negatively affect US economic growth and national security. Traditional water policy measures of expanding supply...
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    . To Gail Marcus, Mary-Ellen Ternes, Rose-Marie Wesson and Steve Smith for their guidance. To

  • The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife

    Creator:
    Barton, Emily S.
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    Existing mythologies that depict female sexuality, too often, portray females as passive objects who either accept sexual advances or resist sexual advances. This thesis attempts to create an alternative mythology where females are active participants in their sexual experiences. I portray four females in four different stories. In two stories...
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    . Thank you, Dawn Alapisco , Matt Young, and Shannon Kizzia for providing critical and grammatical

  • The Creation of a Bilingual Children's Book to Promote Breastfeeding to Acculturating Latin@s

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    Newgard, Jessica Lorraine
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    The purpose of this project is to write a children’s book that promotes breastfeeding to acculturating Latin@s. María’s Mamá’s Milk or La leche de la mamá de María is about a little girl named María whose mother is about to give birth. María wonders what the new baby will eat,...
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    . I would like to thank Dawn Alapisco for being in the lab the first day I got back to Corvallis and

  • The Skeleton in the Closet: An Historic Forensic Case from Scio, Oregon

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    Alapisco, Dawn Marie
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    In August of 2011, Jenny Minten came across an old coffin, complete with a skeleton, in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Scio lodge. After it was determined that the skeleton did not represent a modern forensic case, the remains were donated to the Oregon State University Anthropology Department....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dawn Marie Alapisco for the